Dashmellow
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I'm also curious if you experimented with "Lens Type" in mSetup? I just defaulted to "A lens," but have been meaning to experiment with the other lens settings to see if there is any difference.
Yes, extensively. Each lens type A-B-C adjusts the color balance to match the specific color characteristics of the lenses supplied by Mobius. Some aftermarket lenses can work fine with the default profiles and some don't. In fact, I noticed that the telephoto example you posted in kamkar1's thread has very poor color balance. It has a yellow and a green cast. I would definitely try the other two profiles and see if things improve. Virtually all decent quality dash cams are color balance tweaked for their supplied lenses. When you install an aftermarket lens you may or may not notice the difference depending on the match and blind luck of the draw.
If changing the default lens profile fails you can adjust manually. It can be tricky and time consuming. In my case, I happen to have a lengthy background in color correction in the photography, pre-press and four color printing industries so it's much easier for me and I don't think I would have been able to do what I've done here with this IR lens otherwise. If you don't understand the basic concepts it can be rather confusing.
If changing the default A-B-C lens profiles doesn't improve the color balance I see in your example you could try changing the RGB values manually if you feel like playing around with it. To eliminate the greenish cast you need to increase the Red values (slightly) as well as cut back the Green value (slightly). To reduce the yellow cast you'd need to increase the Blue value (slightly). This can be a tedious process to get exacting results but it can be fun too. Mobius is the ONLY camera that will do this which is one of the reasons I enjoy the camera so much.
I would suggest driving to a spot where your car is facing a wall that has some broad white areas so you can have a known reference point or pointing the camera towards someplace in or around your house that is consistent so you can compare and adjust your results. Always having the same or very close lighting from adjustment to adjustment can be critical.
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